Course Overview
I have just done my biggest course ever Photoshop for Photographer CC. This course will take you through all the basics of retouching raw files, HDR, Panoramas and Black and White photography. We will spend a lot of time on sky replacement and in addition I will give you as part of this course all my new skies (shot in super high resolution format) from all over the world.
We will also look at how to remove anything, a lot of special effects and my full workflow for retouching the skin of a model shot in a studio, as well as retouching the skin of a regular guy. I tried to make each video about 5 to 10 minutes long, so you can just jump in on the one you need. Every example has some of my best photos from around the world. As usual I try to explain everything using simple words, baby steps and a lot of examples. This will take your photos to an entirely new level and is by far the course I'm the most proud of!
Lessons
66
Length
8 Hours 19 Minutes
Level
Beginner
Required
Photoshop CC
Lessons: Part 1
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: First contact
Let’s launch Photoshop for the first time and explore briefly Adobe Bridge
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Basic Exposure Setting
We are going to look at doing the first retouch on the exposure of the photo
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: White Balance
What is and how to set white balance
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Vibrance and saturation
What are they and how they influence your photo
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Second Panel Curves
Curves are very good to fine tune your exposure even further
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Details Sharpening and Noise reduction
How to make your photo sharper and reduce the noise, I give you my favorite recipe
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: HSL
Let’s dive into the definition of hue, luminance and saturation
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Convert to grey scale
A very good starting point to make a nice black and white
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Split Toning
How to add colors in the highlights or shadows
Lessons: Part 2
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Lens Correction
How to activate automatic lens correction and what it does to your photo
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Effects
The effect panel is good especially for the post crop vignetting
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Camera Calibration
A final way to alter your colors as a last touch
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Spot removal
How to remove spots on your photo
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Graduated filter
How to locally change the exposure, one of the most powerful tool in camera raw
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Radial filter
One of my most used tools - the local adjustment tool, a great way to break the tones!
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Brushes
The brush is also a very key tool to dodge and burn your photo (make areas brighter or darker)
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Workflow options
Before we enter Photoshop we have to decide whether we keep all we had done so far as a smart object or not
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Long Exposure Part 1
This is a full retouch A to Z of a long exposure in Venice, we do this in Camera raw
Lessons: Part 3
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Long Exposure Part 2
In this video we will erase some distracting element to finish our project
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Sunrise Part 1
In this video we will retouch a different type of color and explore the transform tool
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Venice Sunrise Part 2
Let’s finish this sunrise photo with our local tools
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Tuscany
We go into a different feeling and look closely at the haze tool
Chapter 1 Camera Raw basics: Fashion Shoot
A different workflow for this type of retouching involving human beings!
Chapter 2 Panoramas: Grand Canyon
In this first video we are going to look at the amazing recent feature of being able to make a panorama and staying in the raw file format!
Chapter 2 Panoramas: Grand Canyon
We are going to use local tools to give it even a stronger feel, more drama!
Chapter 2 Panoramas: Astrophotography Vertorama
Let’s looks at the different projection methods for these 2 photos and do some basic retouching
Chapter 2 Panoramas: Astrophotography Vertorama
I’m going to use local tools to make the milky way pop and the rock less bright
Lessons: Part 4
Chapter 2 Panoramas: Astrophotography Vertorama
Lets finish this image up in Photoshop
Chapter 3 HDR: Zion Overlook
Having the ability to create a raw file that is HDR is one of the coolest newest features of camera raw
Chapter 3 HDR: Zio Overlook Part 2
Let’s use our magic tool to bring back the exact amount of drama on this HDR photo
Chapter 3 HDR: HDR Tuscany
This is a pretty washed out photo that we are trying to save with HDR and dodge and burn
Chapter 3 HDR: HDR Tuscany Part 2
Let’s use local tools to give it a final touch and give volume to the photos
Chapter 4 Black and White: Basic conversion for drama
We are going to take a look at the convert to grayscale option
Chapter 4 Black and White: Local tools
Off course to make drama we have to do some serious local retouching
Chapter 4 Black and White: Selective color
A nice effect to make something pop is to have one item in color and the rest in black and white
Lessons: Part 5
Chapter 4 Black and White: Selective Color Part 2
We are going to give it a final touch in our raw development before going into photoshop
Chapter 4 Black and White: Selective Color Part 3
We are going to remove all the distracting elements of the photo
Chapter 4 Black and White: Removing elements
Playing with 2 raw files that are slightly different one from the other is a good way to erase some elements, let’s first retouch the basic file
Chapter 4 Black and White: Erasing complex element
To finish that nice black and white from Venice we are going to spend a bit of time erasing an annoying metal bar ruining the shot and then we do some magic camera filter work to finish off the photo
Chapter 4 Black and White: Focus stacking
A cool focus stacking example when you want everything to be sharp to make a dramatic black and white
Chapter 4 Black and White: Focus Stacking part 2
In this video we are going to finish our black and white and see if we need to add a second element like a Gondola!
Chapter 5 Remove elements: Erasing plants
Let’s remove annoying plants on a beautiful tome photo
Chapter 5 Remove elements: Replacing ad
We are going to replace some car ad with our own photo
Chapter 5 Remove elements: Removing tourist
By taking similar shots of the same scene I will show you a cool photoshop trick to erase all the tourists
Lessons: Part 6
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Library panel
Let’s put all our skies in the library panel for later use
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Sky Replacement Florence
We are going to replace the sky using selections for the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Sky replacement Florence Part 2
We are going to use our camera to bring drama to the photo
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Rome
We are going to use a much more simple technique to replace the sky using the famous multiply blend mode
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Dunes
I will show the difference between the multiply and the normal mode on this one
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Milky way
One of the coolest sky replacements is to add the milky way in the sky!
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Milky Part 2
In this video we will try different milky ways from our collection until we have the one that fits perfectly – it’s a trial and error process
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Milky way in Venise
A little fun and fantasy exercise, let’s add the milky way in Venice using the lighten & blend mode
Chapter 6 Sky Replacement: Lower antelope
This is one of my favorite photos of last year from the lower antelope canyon, we have a little bit of a tricky sky to replace
Lessons: Part 7
Chapter 7 special Effects: Day to night
In this video we are going to mix a day and night photo for a spectacular result
Chapter 7 special Effects: Sunrise in Rome
When the sun doesn’t show up where you want it to, we can add it later! I will show you the new content aware fill and the wide adaptive angle filter to create a sky around the photo
Chapter 7 special Effects: Sunrise in Rome Part 2
We are going to add the missing sun! Using the blend mode screen.
Chapter 7 special Effects: Mixing two exposures
Let’s first retouch a day photo to get the best out of that camera raw file of a sunset in Italy (Mediterranean Sea)
Chapter 7 special Effects: Cool trick
This is a really cool trick that I have been doing lately to mix different times of exposure of the same scene using the lighten mode
Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Action
Preparing the raw file and installing actions. I’m going to show you how to prepare your photo so that you can use the power of frequency separation to retouch your portrait. We are going to install a special action
Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Frequency Separation
Let’s retouch the skin using our frequency separation set up
Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Liquify
Face remodeling with liquify
Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Color Mode
Let’s make the tones more even with a cool trick
Lessons: Part 8
Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Hairs
Let's apply the same strategy on the skin then onto the hairs
Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Lips and Eyes
As a final touch lets retouch the eyes and the lips to make it pop even more
Chapter 8 Portrait Retouching: Final project on a regular guy
Let’s retouch one of my portrait with all what we learn so far, some regular with lots of skin issues…